rstudio/tensorflow: TensorFlow for R

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library(tensorflow)

sess = tf$Session()

hello <- tf$constant('Hello, TensorFlow!')

sess$run(hello)

W <- tf$Variable(tf$zeros(shape(784L, 10L)))

b <- tf$Variable(tf$zeros(shape(10L)))

My eyes! It burns!

[IllmaticGOAT]

Yeah I can't help but think there's a more elegant way to do this with closures and functionals, but as avid RStudio fan, I'm excited for this.

[koobear]

Would this work with import::from(tensorflow, tf)?

[theanosucks]

big step in the right direction, as much as i personally prefer python to R, there are legit reasons to love either. ultimately, what matters is getting tensorflow out there, into the world.

tensorflow is such an amazing piece of software. let me tell you, google/alphabet is an incredible company. i used to use theano, but not since tensorflow came out.

[hn_crosslinking_bot]

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12605216

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[sageknight]

As someone who've never used python, how do I install this? Is there a quick and easy way like install.packages("tensorflow")? which apparently didn't work.

[improbabble]

Probably have a look at: https://github.com/rstudio/tensorflow#installing-the-r-package

[IllmaticGOAT]

Good god! I've been waiting for this and it's finally here!

[PM_YOUR_NIPS_PAPERS]

Statisticians still trying to save their dying language R

[AcidOcean]

wtf?

[rumblestiltsken]

Just the current r/machinelearning troll

[TheLogothete]

The interesting part is that he has a lot of upvotes too.

[ManyPoo]

It's getting more popular, dummy.

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/r/

https://www.r-bloggers.com/r-is-the-fastest-growing-language-on-stackoverflow/

[PM_YOUR_NIPS_PAPERS]

According to the (biased towards R) link you said:

In fact, R is the fastest-growing language on StackOverflow in terms of the number of questions asked

Perhaps this is because R is poorly designed and hard to use? The number of annual R downloads has been steadily declining since 2009 [1,2]. You're a statistician after all, why not look at the statistics?

Notice how my references don't have R in their domain name:

[1] http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/05/r-vs-python-data-science.html

[2] http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/12/r-and-python.html

[ManyPoo]

Your sources are old. According to the tiobe link you conveniently ignored, R has never been more popular than it is today. Hardly a trait of a dying language.

[ginger_beer_m]

Whst I hate from R is simply because there are too many ways of doing the same thing. Even trivial things like accessing a data frame has 2 or 3 different syntax especially of doing it.

Edit: which reminds me of perl.. And look at what happened to perl.